I used to stutter on just about every interaction with a stranger and would avoid phone calls completely. Now I work in a job where I'm expected to speak up and make myself heard in technical conversations. Part of that was actually training other people to make room for my sometimes dysfluent speech. Over time I've found that I've become more consistently fluent. I think what helped me was easing off myself about appearing stupid. Stuttering has no correlation to intelligence, nor empathy, nor any other factor in being a good person. Basically I started to accept it. Once I started accepting that this was something that I'd live with, I started to get really annoyed by people who has no idea how to react to a stutter. "Did you forget your name?" or being in a hurry when I start to block is a great litmus test of a person's character. The jerks and tight asses of the world out themselves quickly! Something that helped me get to that point was reading and listening to the success stories of other stutterers. There's a few ted talks out there as well as speakers who stutter. Yes, there are stutterers who still stutter and do public speaking professionally! I'd suggest avoiding things about "cures" and focus more on things about "living with" a stutter.